PostClassical Underground

“We are thrilled to be working with artists that can truly be termed unique,” says Artistic Director Joe Horowitz, “these are artists that transcend boundaries of style and genre, and they really belong as much at the Bohemian Caverns as at Strathmore or the Kennedy Center.”

The Ives Project

This one-of-a-kind theatrical presentation, with actors and lighting design, traces Ives’s life —including his passionate courtship, his fierce Transcendentalism, and his cranky politics— through music, letters, and essays. The repertoire —for voice, piano, and chamber orchestra— ranges from the mystic The Unanswered Question to the indescribably rambunctious Over the Pavements. William Sharp, for decades a prime exponent of Ives’s songs, contributes such Ives classics as “The Circus Band” and “General William Booth Enters into Heaven,” as well as a serene Ives set arranged for voice and orchestra by John Adams.

Falla/Stravinsky

A flamenco-fueled excursion into the soul and spirit of Spain featuring the D.C. debut of legendary gypsy cantaora Esperanza Fernandez, as well as master choreographer Igal Perry and one of Spain’s pre-eminent novelists, Antonio Muñoz Molina.

A world-premiere re-imagining of Falla’s El amor brujo, paired with a haunting new production of Stravinsky’s iconic saga of Faustian temptation, The Soldier’s Tale.

Schubert Uncorked

Who was Franz Schubert? Cueing on the anguish and illness of his final years, today’s “new Schubert” is a challenging and often harrowing creative force, anticipating Dostoyevsky and Kafka, and resisting categorization.

Join PostClassical Ensemble and the virtuosic bass trombonist David Taylor for a startling re-contextualization of a revered composer, including two newly commissioned world premieres and the D.C. premiere of a revisionist film biography.